Index to Carols.
I had hoped to have inserted a Carol by the Rev. R. S. Hawker, of Moorwenstow, Cornwall, but it was previously engaged for the Christmas number of ‘Household Words.’ I must, however, take the opportunity of correcting a mistake in ‘Trenoodle’s Specimens of Cornish Dialect,’ where the song of ‘The Trelawney Rising’ is treated as an old ballad. This spirited composition is the production of Mr. Hawker.
| No. | PAGE |
| 1. Seignors, ore entendez à nus | 215 |
| From Douce’s Illustration of Shakespeare (MS. Reg. 16, E viii, 13th century). | |
| 2. Lordings, from a distant home | 217 |
| Translation of the same, from Douce’s Illustrations. | |
| 3. Welcū ȝole in good array | 218 |
| Douce MS., 302. 15th century. | |
| 4. Holy stond in þe hall fayre to behold | 219 |
| Harln. MS., 5396. Temp. Hen. 6. | |
| 5. Now ys Crystemas y-cum | 220 |
| Wright’s Carols (Harln. MS., 541. Temp. Hen. 7.) | |
| 6. The borys hede, that we bryng here | 223 |
| 7. I am here, syre Cristsmasse | 224 |
| Both from Additional MS., 5665. Temp. Hen. 8. | |
| 8. A bonne God wote! | 224 |
| Wright’s Carols, Cotton. MS., Vespasian, A, xxv. | |
| 9. A Babe is born al of a may | 226 |
| The same, Sloane MS., 2593. | |
| 10. The fyrst day of ȝole have we in mynd | 227 |
| 11. Blyssid be that lady bryght | 228 |
| Both from Wright’s Songs and Carols. | |
| 12. Hey, hey, hey, hey, the borrys hede is armyd gay | 230 |
| Wright’s Carols. | |
| 13. The bore’s heed in hand bring I | 231 |
| Ritson’s Ancient Songs. | |
| 14. In Betheleem, that noble place | 232 |
| Bibliographical Miscellanies (Kele’s Christmas Carolles.) | |
| 15. All you that in this house be here | 233 |
| Wright’s Carols (New Carols, 1661). | |
| 16. Remember, O thou man, O thou man! | 235 |
| Melismata, 1611. | |
| 17. Jesus Christ of Nazareth | 237 |
| Translated from Hoffman’s Horæ Belgicæ, part 2, p. 16. | |
| 18. What is that which is but one? | 238 |
| 19. Joseph was an old man, and an old man was he | 241 |
| 20. A child this day is born | 242 |
| 21. As I passed by a river side | 246 |
| 22. As it fell out one May morning | 251 |
| 23. A Virgin most pure, as the prophets do tell | 254 |
| 24. God rest you, merry gentlemen | 256 |
| 25. God’s dear Son without beginning | 258 |
| 26. I saw three ships come sailing in | 260 |
| 27. The first nowell the angel did say | 261 |
| 28. The Lord at first had Adam made | 263 |
| 29. To-morrow shall be my dancing day | 266 |
| 30. Now when Joseph and Mary | 268 |
| 31. This new Christmas Carol, ‘Let us cheerfully sing’ | 271 |
| 32. When Cæsar did the sceptre sway | 273 |
| 33. Saint Stephen was a holy man | 275 |
| 34. Hark! the herald angels sing | 278 |
| This and the sixteen preceding are from manuscript copies, several of which | |
| are also printed as broadsides. | |
| 35. Guillô pran ton tamborin | 279 |
| Noei Bourgignon. | |
| 36. De noubélos Efans en benen de la bilo | 280 |
| Recueil de Poetes Gascons, 1700. | |
| 37. Tres Rei de l’Orian | 281 |
| Nouveaux Cantiques Spirituels Provençaux, 1750. | |
| 38. Quand Dieu naquit a Noel | 282 |
| Noels Vieux & Nouveaux. | |
| 39. Lon de la gran carriere | 284 |
| Recueil de Noels Provençaux, 1791. | |
| 40. L’An mil sies cens quaranto cinc | 287 |
| Recueil de Poetes Gascons. | |
| 41. J’antan po no ruë | 288 |
| Noei Bourgignon. | |
| 42. I hear along the street | 290 |
| Translation of No. 41, by Longfellow. | |
| Christmas Play of Alexander | 292 |
| The like of St. George | 298 |